The Hunger Games - Second Quarter

19

The next few chapter will probably be really boring but you'll soon be introduced to Phoebe

"Elsa!" I hear Effie call, I quickly pick myself up and head into the dining cart.

Food was spread across the table, cinnamon buns, french toast, waffles, ETC.

I sat next to Katniss and piled my plate with food, it had been a while since I ate capitol food. The tour didn't have much of the good stuff, it never did.

I stuffed myself with the delicious food, me and Gale were the last people at the table. He put some cantaloupe on his plate, while I picked at my waffle.

"Do you know why Phoebe was in your dream? " He asks staring at his plate.

"No." I say simply.

"What was it about?" He asks.

I opened my mouth to speak but then closed it, pressing my lips tight together.

"The dream." He says.

"I know what you meant." I reply.

"Then what was it about?" He asks.

I stare at him and he stares back at me. You know how people say you can tell what people are thinking by a look, I"m pretty sure he got what I was thinking because he stood up from his seat and left, without saying a word. You could say part of me was relieved but part of me wanted to apologize but I knew, if I did that he'd win.

I finished my food and headed back to my room. On my bed there was the tape, Phoebe's tape. I popped it into the TV and grabbed a remote. I watched her tape and re-watched it, and re-watched it again. I didn't realize it was dinner until Effie peeked her head through my door and told me. I was the first one to leave the table, so I went to the window cart. I stared out at the beautiful scenery that we were passing through.

"I think you and Gale should make up." I hear a voice say. I didn't look back to see who it was however.

"I dont want an argument over why I should apologize to him." I say.

"Why not? " The voice who I now recognized to be Haymitch asked.

"I'm not giving him that satisfaction. " I reply.

"You'll think different during the games." He says.

"Its done Haymitch, Gale and Elsa are done." I say.

"What about what Snow said?" Haymitch asks.

I turned my body towards him, but I spoke no words. He was right, I was thinking about me not about our families, I still had to make all of Panem believe, I still had to make Snow believe.

I raised an eyebrow at Haymitch.

"All I have to do is pretend to love him, shouldn't be that hard he did it to me." I reply.

"Elsa, you have to take the high road, you might lose him soon and you'll regret never forgiving each other, stop being a child." He says.

"Haymitch if you haven't forgotten I am a child, I'm only 17," I say, "I'm the youngest tribute this year, I'm like a lamb in a slaughter house. "

"You're tough Elsa, I believe you can do this." Haymitch says.

"I had luck last year, people died to save me, this year no one will die to save me." I say.

"People do extraordinary things Elsa, keep that in mind." Haymitch says and at that he left.

Haymitch was right, I just didn't want to admit it. I didn't want to lose Gale and know that we never forgave eachother.